Google Voice's Secret Weapon: Number Portability — Google Voice, formerly GrandCentral, is a seriously heavyweight product. When it relaunched in March, just a couple of months ago, we gave Google Voice a glowing review. — Once you've jumped in head first to the product it will straighten out your phone life forever.

FEAR GRIPS GOOGLE — SOURCES: SERGEY ORDERS BING STUDY — You'd think nothing would get under the skin of search giant Google. — But co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades …

CrunchPad Prototype Unboxing Caught on Youtube — Straight from the sounds of the tweets, a Youtube video of the CrunchPad prototype unboxing has been spotted. — Loic Le Meur, the Seesmic.com founder who has close ties with Michael Arrington, posted the video of what looks …

Firefox.next peek: profiling yourself — One of the features planned for the next version of Firefox (tentatively named Firefox 3.6, but most accurately referred as Firefox.next) is about:me, a specially crafted web page that will let you see your browsing habits profile including most visited sites …

The Tweet Smell of Success — Mr. Rogers had many neighbors, but was always looking to add more. On Facebook, people who have hundreds of “friends” still collect them avidly: “Will you be my friend, we already have 15 in common?” — Twitter, the social-networking site of the moment …

Google Calendar Gadgets Appearing — Andrew Pariser emails in a surprise finding in Google Calendar (if by any chance you're able to reproduce this - I'm not - please comment): … [Thanks Andrew and Tony!] — Update: As noted in the comments, you can try disable all CSS on the page …

A Tale of Two Smartphones: US vs Rest of World compared — It was the best of phones, it was the worst of phones. — After I wrote my Open Letter to Microsoft (urging them to take mobile seriously) I had a lot of discussions and many were curious about why does the US market seem so opposite …

Dear CNN, Please Check Twitter for News About Iran — Note: This post was written at midnight PST last night, at which point CNN.com was hours behind much of the rest of online media in prioritizing the big news in Iran. The site has since focused on Iran but we believe this post remains relevant …

Secret war on web crooks revealed — The people who run the world's internet systems are a rather secretive bunch. — Three times a year, senior technical officers from companies such as Google, Yahoo, AT&T, Comcast and Verizon meet to discuss ways of stopping the internet from being swamped …

2018 Top 100 Global Tech Leaders — 21st century technology-sector leadership requires more than financial success. It also requires a commitment to compliance, innovation, and much more. Who are today's leaders?